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milk, regardless of its quality, another breed may be 

 chosen, though some of my Jerseys give twenty quarts of 

 rich milk per day. If for richness of milk, richness of 

 butter, and richness of meat when butchered, I know of 

 none that can equal the best class of Jerseys. I do not 

 mean the pretty little creatures so often purchased, and 

 at large prices, merely for their beauty, but the full size, 

 Americanized cows, born and brought up in this country, 

 and which seem to me far handsomer than the toy cattle 

 sometimes seen on fancy farms. 



Large sums are frequently paid for a painting of a hand- 

 some cow, perhaps many times the value of the original. 

 The purchaser sees his money's worth on the canvas, and 

 gladly rewards the clever artist. A few years ago, I 

 greatly enjoyed looking at a large exhibition of valuable 

 paintings imported from Europe. Among them was one 

 of a few sheep so admirably executed that you could al- 

 most imagine them to be clothed in real wool. Some 

 farmers who saw this picture inquired the price. Upon 

 being informed that it was two thousand dollars, they 

 expressed surprise, and could not be convinced that it 

 was worth so much money, though told by its owner that 

 "there was two thousand dollars' worth of wool alone in 

 the picture." 



While alluding to the different breeds of cattle, it will 

 not be out of place to acknowledge my ignorance of any 

 such breed as was referred to by the clergyman who, in 

 dwelling upon the Prodigal Son, became much excited 

 over the young man's happy return to his home, and 

 pictured in graphic terms, the " fatted calf " which he 

 aazured his hearers the fond father had been fattening for 



